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Legislators want to ban synthetic pot

<p>Some West Virginia lawmakers want to ban K2 and other so-called synthetic marijuana products, which are growing in popularity.</p>

Asian American Gulf Coast Fishermen's Frustrations Teem Over Four Months After the Spill

<p>The sun rose over the horizon a few hours before 62-year-old Sung Nguyen stood dockside with tears steadily flowing down his cheeks.&nbsp;The new day brought the same stress of being out of work with few prospects. The Vietnamese American fisherman watched his nearby docked boat, wrapped partially in "Dream Girls" movie posters, as it rocked gently in a Biloxi, Mississippi harbor.</p>

Crisis De Salud: Chronic uncertainty

It was ten o'clock, wet heat was hard to bear and the doctor Neil Shulman desperately shouted through a loudspeaker: "It is going to die! They are going to die!".
Around a dozen people nodded and looked at him with saddened eyes. Held in their hands banners reading: "Grady, Do not Let Them Die" (Grady, do not let them die!).

Crisis De Salud: They were running out of time

Concern refills the lives of more than thirty dialysis patients in Atlanta. They are reaching the date will no longer receive the treatment that keeps them alive.
On 31 August contract expires on Grady Hospital signed with Fresenius private clinic for further treatment of these patients, mostly illegal immigrants.